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Egypt
Civilization
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Mesopotamia
100
This scientist studies the remains of civilizations by excavating ruins and reviewing artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
100
This is the Egyptian form of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
This event led to sedentary agriculture.
What is the domestication of plants?
100
This is the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Mesopotamia is found in this part of the world.
What is the Near East?
200
This is a man made object studied by archaeologists.
What is an artifact?
200
This is the title of the god-kings of Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
200
This is where civilizations first developed.
What are river valleys?
200
This is another name for a craft worker.
What is an artisan?
200
This is the name for a Sumerian temple.
What is a ziggurat?
300
A scientist who studies cultures from the past and present.
What is an anthropologist?
300
Mummification, mathematics, and irrigation were all used in this ancient civilization.
What are some accomplishments of the Egyptian Civilization?
300
The exchanging of ideas and goods between different groups of people.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
This political unit is a city surrounded by its agricultural fields.
What is a city-state?
300
This is the ancient Sumerian form of writing.
What is cuneiform writing?
400
This is the trading of goods and/or services without using money?
What is bartering?
400
This was developed to predict the annual flood of the Nile River.
What is the Egyptian calendar?
400
This made it possible for people to specialize which led to cities and then civilizations.
What are agricultural development and food surpluses?
400
This form of government centralizes all religious and political authority in a single leader.
What is a theocracy?
400
This is the first written code of laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
This is a way of life that includes diet, religion, and artistic achievements?
What is culture?
500
This is what makes the Nile River so unusual.
What is its annual flood?
500
These are the 5 characteristics of a civilization.
What are advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology?
500
The act of taming animals for food, clothing, and labor.
What is domestication?
500
These two rivers create the river valley of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?